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And so in a few weeks, what ended up happening was, I lost my identity as a faculty member, and I got a very stressful new identity as a mother.
His mind was worried and preoccupied and had stressful memories and, really, dread for his future.
If we present stressful images while they're doing this experiment, this gap of attention shrinks, its power diminishes.
Interestingly, some parallel work going on in social psychology: some people reviewed 208 different studies in which volunteers had been invited into a psychological laboratory and had their stress hormones, their responses to doing stressful tasks, measured.
And so that's a very stressful situation, and we actually have data on this.
And what you see here is a graph where you see that the lower ranking the male baboon is, the higher is his cortisol level in the feces, but the alpha male, as you see, has just as high a level as the lowest-ranking males, and so you may think that being alpha male is nice and dandy and is wonderful, but it's actually a very stressful position, and we can demonstrate that physiologically.
So we bring people into a lab, and they do either high- or low-power poses again, they go through a very stressful job interview.
Before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation, for two minutes, try doing this, in the elevator, in a bathroom stall, at your desk behind closed doors.
Fear is set in Light Helvetica, so it's not too stressful, and if you set it in Ultra Light Helvetica, it's like, "Oh, fear, who cares?" Right?
It's kind of stressful typing out, so if you type on this keyboard, you can, like, balance it out.
I can shape a pot out of clay and choose a glaze, but then I have to let it go to the fire and the smoke, and what's wonderful is the surprises that happen, like this crackle pattern, because it's really stressful on these pots.
It was a really very stressful time.
And it's fun, and it's not stressful.
Homework is stressful, but when you go home every day and your home is work, you don't want to pick up any assignments.
Reading textbooks is stressful, but reading does not matter when you feel your story is already written, either dead or getting booked.
Taking tests is stressful, but bubbling in a Scantron does not stop bullets from bursting.
Many of these things are incompatible, and as research is just starting to show, simply harder and more stressful to do all at once in our 30s.
Over a lifetime of stressful experiences, this one biological change could be the difference between a stress-induced heart attack at age 50 and living well into your 90s.
Okay, so the bad news first: For every major stressful life experience, like financial difficulties or family crisis, that increased the risk of dying by 30 percent.
Now I wouldn't necessarily ask for more stressful experiences in my life, but this science has given me a whole new appreciation for stress.
How would that extend to advice, like, if someone is making a lifestyle choice between, say, a stressful job and a non-stressful job, does it matter which way they go?
It's equally wise to go for the stressful job so long as you believe that you can handle it, in some sense?
And you might be thinking, well, you know, these are filmed events, they are not particularly stressful.
Would the same kind of mistakes be made with a really stressful event?
In a study we published just a few months ago, we have an answer to this question, because what was unusual about this study is we arranged for people to have a very stressful experience.
And you might be thinking, well, that's not particularly stressful.
But we and other investigators have planted rich false memories of things that were much more unusual and much more stressful.
Now the stressful, unpleasant interrogation is over.
So there are important changes happening in the structure and function of the brain during adolescence, especially in the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, and these are areas that are crucial for things like self-control, decision-making, emotion processing and regulation and sensitivity to reward and risk, all of which can affect how you function in a stressful circumstance, like a police interrogation.
So think back to a stressful time that you've since recovered from.
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